Get Help

Through our QA System (our recommended way to get help!):

Go ahead and ask any question! Companies and mentors will be monitoring this site to provide help. It works very similarly to Stack Overflow!

Through the PennApps Slack:

If you’ve checked in, you should already have an invitation. If you aren’t on the PennApps Slack or haven’t been invited, email [email protected]

Many companies will have slack channels! Feel free to check those out.

Through the Pairing System

Fill out the form at my.pennapps.com/mentor, detailing your question. You will need to be logged in to see the page.

The PennApps Mentorship team receives the request and finds an available mentor for you. Active matching will be occurring from Friday 8 pm - midnight and Saturday 8 am to midnight.

You will receive an email with the mentor’s contact information. Contact the mentor and arrange a place to meet (we suggest Mentorship Central, in the Engineering Cafe, as an easily identifiable location)

If you ever have any questions, don’t hesitate to come to Mentorship Central in the Engineering Cafe for help!

Workshops at PennApps

At PennApps, we host several events for both our new and experienced hackers. Friday night, we will have intro to hacking talks on topics like Civic Hacking, User Centered Design, Intro to Web Dev, Android, and iOS. We also have additional workshops on Saturday afternoon on the topics of Machine Learning APIs, Data Innovation and Its Role in Healthcare, Hardware, Ruby, and What Investors Don’t Tell You About Pitching. You can find the schedule here.

There will be a team formation event on Friday night for both Hacker Guru teams and regular teams. A women’s meetup will occur on Saturday as well. Times and locations for the workshops can be found in your program or under logistics on pennapps.com. You can also find mentors in the Mentor Hub (Engineering Cafe) for most of the weekend!

PennApps has teamed up with the Dining Philosophers (Penn’s CS club) to teach new hackers the basics of hacking! The Dining Philosophers has a bunch of homegrown workshops and tutorials on all sorts of useful subjects for new hackers like HTML, CSS, and Javascript. Click here to see all the information from the tutorials, including slides, and code samples. We particularly recommend the Code Weekend series of workshops that are a brilliant intro to Web Development.